Highland's Call

Description

A simple but effective suit, very warm. The colourstyle of the fabric reminds me the Ukrainian Carpathians (mountains) thus the name was born ( although I’m not sure what it will remind after burda’s playing with pictures but anyway…:-))

I was very short of fabric: at first I bought a small piece for a skirt but after my coming home, I thought that I want a suit and am skillful enough to make a suit without too many expenses. So, here we are – me and my suit:-) The fabric is really thick and warm so while I was working it occurred to me that to make a coat – that is the right and stunning thing would be of the fabric… hmm:-)

So, as the fabric is warm, I wanted a skirt with a one-piece band and I had to choose very thrifty pattern for a jacket to satisfy my ambitions :-) And, of course, all the stripes had to coincide in all the control points of the both items and the symmetry should be kept.
For the skirt I chose the pattern from from Burda magazine 2/2009, #128 and the idea for the jacket was taken from Diana Modern (Ukrainian issue) 10/2013, #9. The latter suited me because of one-seamed sleeve and the zipper instead of buttons, and collar-free :-); I also made it a little longer and omitted a peplum.
The suit is very comfortable and colourful and my colleagues came up to me today for telling compliments:-)

Material Notes

Double woolen jersey with addition of some p/a (I guess), the fabric is very dense and keeps the shape very well, besides it’s of a good quality because I almost had no problem with joining the stripes – a couple of pins were enough to get a nice seam ( as a rule, when the fabric is thin, it takes me all my pins reserve to keep the stripes or checks on the spots:-)).
For the lining I used dense viscose silk ( I guess it would be good to make a parachute ).
And, the most impressive, it took 1.80m x 135cm of the fabric to sew the suit. All the parts were cut across.

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I have told you before that I looove your style!!! You must be the most well dressed lady in Ukraine and sure you are one of my favorite sewers here. I like very much the suit…keep sewing and posting you are a great inspiration;)

Really lovely suit Oksana and it is a shame the photos are so dark as I am sure the colours of the fabric would be beautiful. You have sewn it perfectly and I can imagine that your work colleagues gave you many lovely compliments. Well done.

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Thank you, very much for a nice comment!
The only way to add the pictures was to make their brightness three times less. I’m very sorry about all the crafters who add their projects and see Halloween images instead of their work.

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Really lovely Oksana! You look like you are in a modern fairytale :) Great job – and I like the jacket with zipper very much. The nice thing with this lovely outfit is that you can use it seperate or together :-)

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